Wolaita Sodo University, School of Public Health, Department of Reproductive Health.
Wolaita Sodo University, Dawuro Campus, Department of Public Health.
Afr J Reprod Health. 2022 Sep;26(9):48-54. doi: 10.29063/ajrh2022/v26i9.5.
Adolescents' and youths' death in sub-Saharan Africa was the highest in the world according to the 2019 WHO fact sheet report. About 80% of the global youth in the age range of 15-24 years are living with unmet needs for sexual and reproductive health services. A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted from the 1st of September 2020 to the 30 of June 2021 in the Dawuro Zone, to assess the prevalence of sexual and reproductive health service utilization and factors associated with employing the binary logistic regression model. The prevalence of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service utilization was 26% in this study. Discussion with family/peers on the SRH service issues, exposure to media, having pocket money, and previous awareness creation on SRH service issues were variables statistically significant with an adjusted odds ratio (AOR) with a 95% confidence interval (CI) of 1.81(1.27-2.26),1.47(1.04-2.09),1.54(1.09-2.2), and 2.82(2.01-3.95) respectively at p value< 0.05. The 26% was the low utilization of SRH service.
根据世界卫生组织 2019 年情况说明报告，撒哈拉以南非洲青少年的死亡率居世界首位。全球约 80%的 15-24 岁青年有未满足的性健康和生殖健康服务需求。本研究于 2020 年 9 月 1 日至 2021 年 6 月 30 日在达乌罗地区开展了一项以学校为基础的横断面研究，评估性健康和生殖健康服务利用的流行情况，并利用二元逻辑回归模型分析相关影响因素。本研究中，性健康和生殖健康（SRH）服务利用率为 26%。与家人/同伴讨论 SRH 服务问题、接触媒体、有零花钱以及之前对 SRH 服务问题的认识等变量，与调整后的比值比（AOR）和 95%置信区间（CI）具有统计学意义，分别为 1.81（1.27-2.26）、1.47（1.04-2.09）、1.54（1.09-2.2）和 2.82（2.01-3.95），p 值均<0.05。因此，26%是 SRH 服务利用率低的原因。
